The collections are the museum’s most important resource. They contain a material heritage from earlier times in Stockholm. They give us a perspective on the city’s complex history and are an indispensable source of knowledge.
Part of the museum's brief is to make the collections available to people who want to learn from them. The collections are divided into archive materials, books, photographs, art and physical objects.
The most important entry-point to the collections is the Salongen library and research room at the museum and the various displays and branches of the museum.
Photographs
The museum has been collecting photographs with Stockholm connections since the 1930s. The collection contains some 3 million negatives, glass plates and other photographic materials. The oldest photographs date back to the 1840s.
Digital database
You may explore among our photographs at Digitala Stadsmuseet, which is our digital database (in Swedish).
Image orders
The City Museum has its own production department for the production of photographs from the museum's collections.
